Mostly formal and often posed, these black and white images offer a taste of hospital life during the 40s. It was hospital business as usual, with the addition of new wartime measures. Day-to-day scenes such as a doctor reviewing x-ray films with a Dictaphone, and nurses assisting a patient in an oxygen tent are juxtaposed with the then-familiar sight of an Air Raid Warden’s Post furnished with fire-fighting equipment.